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Welcome
to the Technology and Society Connection (TASC) Website!
The UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
(CEMS) Design Technology And Society Connection (TASC) is
held annually at UVM. The purpose of the competition is to give teams of
high school students the challenge and satisfaction of designing, building,
and testing a device to perform a specified task. The program begins in
September and culminates in December with schools bringing teams (maximum
of five students per team) to UVM to display created devices. This
competition is sponsored by businesses in Vermont and surrounding states.
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The program is designed to help teachers encourage high school
students to use their knowledge of physics and mathematics in a tangible
way. The competition features many different aspects that appear in the high
school curricula: including physical principles such as, work, energy,
efficiency, pressure, friction, and inertia; mathematical principles such
as functions, minima, maxima, and logarithms; oral and written
communication skills; and drawing skills. Teams that carefully consider
all of these aspects of the problem, that look at possible trade-offs in
the design and that thoroughly test the apparatus, have the greatest
success. Teamwork is a critical factor in determining success.
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